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» XML Rules

XML Rules

Index of all built-in rules available for XML

Table of Contents

Best Practices

Rules which enforce generally accepted best practices.

MissingEncoding: When the character encoding is missing from the XML declaration, the parser may produce garbled t…

Error Prone

Rules to detect constructs that are either broken, extremely confusing or prone to runtime errors.

MistypedCDATASection: An XML CDATA section begins with a <![CDATA[ marker, which has only one [, and ends with a ]]> ma…

Additional rulesets

Basic XML (rulesets/xml/basic.xml):

Deprecated This ruleset is for backwards compatibility.

It contains the following rules:

MistypedCDATASection

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